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Re: Well-formedness and undeclared general entity references

From: richard@------.--.--.-- (------- -----)
To: NULL
Date: 4/10/2009 2:27:00 PM

In article <grnc77$r5e$1@n...>,
Stanimir Stamenkov  <s7an10@n...> wrote:

>Is an XML document using undeclared general entity references not 
>well-formed?  For example:
>
><test>
>   foo
>   &bar;
></test>

That document is not well-formed.

>If yes, what's the difference given using a non-validating processor 
>and the given example:
>
><!DOCTYPE test SYSTEM "empty.dtd">
><test>
>   foo
>   &bar;
></test>
>
>Where "empty.dtd" is really an empty file.

A non-validating processor isn't required to read empty.dtd, so it may
not be able to tell that it doesn't contain any declarations.  The
idea is that an error that can only be detected by reading the
external DTD is a validity error, rather than a well-formedness error.

-- Richard
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